Regarding this problem, I'd advise people to just skip pre-Entry, or to reduce it to a VERY LIMITED number of dynamic scenes. The Acts 1/2/3 pre-Entry antics have already been done for 1300 pages by Hussie and for an immeasurable number of pages by various SBURBdventures in the last 16 years.

Pre-Entry stuff can be done extremely well (hello Edgebound 2013, sburb.EXE or, "in a way", Wake Up), but personally I always found it long. In 2011, I kept the pre-Entry scenes relatively short, but if I was starting the Alabaster session from scratch in 2025, I would skip them entirely. I would start IN the session, or even mid-session.

You may think the pre-Entry scenes are necessary to establish characters and subplots, but they aren't. You have a thousand ways to develop all of this post-Entry. As John W. Campbell (the author of the 1938 scifi/horror masterpiece Who Goes There?) once said, "if you feel a story is slow, you're probably starting it too soon. He then proceeded to cut dozens of pages out of his novella, making it start in media res, with the discussion around the block of ice.